Alphabets from around the world
Every language has its own way of writing. This page is your doorway to the world’s alphabets. Pick a language from the buttons above to see its whole alphabet in order, from vowels and consonants to vowel signs, marks and digits. You can choose Bangla, Hindi, Assamese, Punjabi, Gujarati, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Armenian, Georgian, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, Amharic, Japanese, Korean or Chinese.
Tap any letter to copy it. It is the easiest way to type a letter from another language without changing your keyboard.
Alphabets you can explore
- South Asia: Bangla, Hindi (Devanagari), Assamese, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Gujarati, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala and Urdu.
- Middle East: Arabic and Hebrew, both written right to left.
- Europe and the Caucasus: Greek, Russian (Cyrillic), Armenian and Georgian.
- Southeast Asia: Thai, Lao, Khmer and Burmese.
- Africa: Amharic, written in the Ge’ez script.
- East Asia: Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters.
Who uses this page?
Students use it to practise their mother tongue or a new language. Parents use it to make alphabet charts for kids. Teachers print letters for worksheets. People living abroad use it to type a word in their home language on a borrowed computer. Designers use it to test how a script looks in their layout, and translators use it to fix a missing letter in a document.
How the alphabet pages are ordered
Each language page puts the letters in the traditional order that children learn at school. For Bangla and Hindi, that means vowels like অ আ or अ आ first, then consonants like ক খ or क ख. After the letters come the vowel signs, such as া ি or ा ि, which attach to consonants. Then come marks like the virama ্ or ्, digits and other signs.
Some scripts are shared by several languages. Bangla and Assamese use the same script with a few different letters, and Arabic letters are also used for Urdu, Persian and other languages. Each language page shows the letters that language uses first.
Vowel signs and marks
Many Indian and Southeast Asian scripts use vowel signs that change how a consonant sounds. When you copy a vowel sign on its own, it may sit on a dotted circle. Paste it right after a consonant and it joins up, like ক + া = কা or क + ा = का. This is normal and is how these scripts work in Unicode.
Typing other languages
If you write in a language every day, add its keyboard in your phone or computer settings. Android, iOS, Windows and macOS all support the scripts on this page. For a single letter, a quick word or a test, copying from here is faster than switching keyboards.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I find the Bangla alphabet?
- Tap the Bangla button above to see every Bangla letter in order, from অ to ৎ, plus vowel signs and digits.
- Is Assamese the same as Bangla?
- They share one script, but Assamese uses ৰ and ৱ where Bangla uses র and ব. Each has its own page here.
- Why does a vowel sign show with a circle?
- Vowel signs are meant to join a consonant. On their own, many devices draw a dotted circle where the consonant would go.
- Which languages are written right to left?
- Arabic, Urdu and Hebrew are written from right to left.
- Can I copy a whole word?
- Yes. Add letters to the composer in order, then copy the whole word at once.